Why is it that membrane spanning protein segments are almost always alpha helices or Beta barrels but never disordered chains? (hint: remember side chains)

please provide your source of info with your answer so i can study it in more depth. Thank you =)

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Why is it that membrane spanning protein segments are almost always alpha helices or Beta barrels but never disordered chains? (hint: remember side chains)

please provide your source of info with your answer so i can study it in more depth. Thank you =)

anonymous · Answer

https://www.rostlab.org/papers/2008_rev_secstr/paper.html

anonymous · Answer

light, DNA, economic activity, and proteins.

shrutipande9 · Answer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21570/ I guess this would help u..